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Just Like We Left Them
After breakfast and an interesting Uber rider with the former managing editor of the Denver Post in his Tesla Model Y, we arrived at Mountain View RV storage. We remembered our gate code, and our Uber driver drove us right up to Khan. No apparent problems – a few tumbleweeds lodged under Khan and Polo,…
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Comedy of Errors
Sunday was a travel day – we planned to drop Khan and Polo at an RV storage site where we had made a reservation weeks ago – 25 minutes from the Denver airport and a half hour or so drive from our Longmont AirBnB. What could go wrong? We left the AirBnB on schedule around…
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Rocky Mountain High
Most of the judging activities were over except for 3 more hours of pool competition on Saturday morning – the “collaborative” bonus round for all teams. Another three hours in the pool for Scott. However, since the teams were working together somewhat rather than working on complicated scoring missions against the clock, this was a…
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Made it to MATE
Thursday and Friday were consumed by Judging responsibilities – no traveling or sightseeing, but interesting enough to chronical in our blog. Anthony had by far the easiest judging responsibilities. He only had work to do Friday morning, with a briefing then judging posters that each team had to produce about their project of building an…
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Long Dusty Road
Today was a travel day to our next stop – an AirBnB with three bedrooms, two baths, full kitchen, laundry facilities, and a hot tub! The night before Anthony and Tom had carefully washed both Khan and Polo, but it rained and the driveway and dirt road out of our guest house oasis left both…
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Two Headed Calf!
Today was our day to meet up with our Lynnewood Hall Preservation Foundation board members and talk together with the Wideners about family history and lore. We also continued to benefit from their hospitality, seeing the sights of Sheridan. We started out with lunch at the Brinton Museum with a few Wideners and Lynnewood team,…
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A Busy Day
Today was a sightseeing and fish lesson day. Peter Widener met us at the guest house and drove us to town to a fly fishing shop he previously owned for outfitting for fly fishing. Peter apparently knows everyone in town and we overheard lots of fascinating conversations with the locals. After we obtained flies, rods,…
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Dunellen Has Us Singing the Blues
The day started without any drama – smooth departure around 8:15AM or so after breakfast. Scott and Tom had a meeting at 10AM, so we decided to stop for this on the way somewhere with good cellular service – and that turned out to be Dunnellon . Nice town with marked on-street parking, and a…
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Boating, Biking, Jeeping
Today was a lot of fun. We had booked a boat ride with Florida Girl Charters for an undisclosed but very reasonable charge for a river and Gulf / Bay photography tour. Our captain Laura was very knowledgeable about the area, and the ride was fun. See the nice pictures we took (Steve took most…
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Steinhatchee Wildlife – Us
Sunday morning we awoke to our coldest outside temperature yet. We left our bike batteries charging overnight, and they had a thick layer of frost on them in the morning. Steve was sore all over, but game to do anything that did not involve bike riding. We decided to take the jeep and try and…
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First True Blood
Encouraged by our success of Friday bike rides we took off this morning for rides closer to Steinhatchee. Tom and Steve researched both trails and attractions near our “campsite”, and discovered Steinhatchee Falls – “the widest waterfall in Florida” at 40 feet or so in width and maybe a 2-3 foot drop – reminding Scott…
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Terrorizing Steinhatchee
On Friday we decided to take the old-man electric bikes in our jeep Polo to Fanning Springs State Park and environs. On the earlier trip relocating Khan and Polo to Florida, Scott and Tom rode Scott’s “Ride Scoozy” and Steve’s “Rad Power” ebikes. Since the entire group would be riding this time Tom needed to…